Catechism for Young Children

Memory cards for questions 81 to 90

Catechism for Young Children · Q81

What does the first commandment teach us?

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Answer 81

To worship God alone.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q82

What is the second commandment?

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Answer 82

The second commandment is, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q83

What does the second commandment teach us?

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Answer 83

To worship God in a proper manner, and to avoid idolatry.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q84

What is the third commandment?

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Answer 84

The third commandment is, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q85

What does the third commandment teach us?

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Answer 85

To reverence God’s name, word, and works.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q86

What is the fourth commandment?

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Answer 86

The fourth commandment is, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q87

What does the fourth commandment teach us?

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Answer 87

To keep the Sabbath holy.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q88

What day of the week is the Christian Sabbath?

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Answer 88

The first day of the week, called the Lord’s day.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q89

Why is it called the Lord’s day?

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Answer 89

Because on that day Christ rose from the dead.

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Catechism for Young Children · Q90

How should the Sabbath be spent?

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Answer 90

In prayer and praise, in hearing and reading God’s word, and in doing good to our fellow-men.

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